Game Of Thrones' Kit Harington Dishes On Playing A Gladiator For Pompeii, His First Lead Movie Role

Kit Harington has been spending his downtime from "Game of Thrones" shooting his first lead role in a feature film -- the 3-D action adventure movie "Pompeii."

In the project, the British actor stars as Milo, a slave-turned-gladiator, who ends up racing against time to save his one true love, Flavia (Australian actress Emily Browning), from Mt. Vesuvius and her betrothal to a corrupt Roman general.

"It's great," Kit told AccessHollywood.com recently about how filming has been going up in Toronto. "It's my first lead role in a movie as well, which is a very new thing for [me] and it's going really well."

In order to play a gladiator, Kit's had to do a fair bit of sword swinging, something he has experience in.

"There's a lot of fight scenes, so that's something that I'm sort of used to from 'Thrones,'" he said. "I'm having to get very good at throwing swords about again. But, it's really exciting. It's going very well."